San Antonio Spurs had cooling fans in Game 1, Miami Heat did not

The story that everyone can’t stop talking about from Game 1 of the NBA Finals was that the air conditioning in the AT&T Center broke and turned the arena into an oven. But while the Miami Heat were cooking in temperatures that reached 90 degrees, we are now learning that it wasn’t as hot in the Spurs locker room as the team took precautions to fight the heat.

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As Danny Green pointed out this week, the Spurs had cooling fans in their locker room at halftime which helped them battle the high temps inside the arena a lot better than the Heat were. To make matters even worse, Green admits that while the Spurs had fans to cool them off, the same cannot be said about the Heat who were baking in a fan-less locker room not that far away.

This may or may not have been the Spurs dancing around NBA rules a little bit but even if it was harmless, Heat fans will be incensed that the team lost a game in which they were playing against both the Spurs and the intense heat. To boot, this story about there being fans in the Spurs locker room and not in the Heat locker room won’t tickle anyone in Miami either, as LeBron cramping up in Game 1 may have been avoided if there had been proper cooling at halftime.

Still, everyone was hot inside of the AT&T Center on Thursday night and someone from the Spurs could have cramped up just like LeBron did. The fact that they didn’t and we now know that they had cooling fans is a bad look and will only fuel the conspiracy theories people already have.

[h/t: Bleacher Report]